…often conflicting) collective identities: village, traditional, urban, intellectual, worker-class, Soviet-nostalgic, greater Russian citizen (rossiiskii), inferior/ethnically nihilistic, culturally prideful, pagan/animistic, secular, Orthodox Christian, etc. The problem with Halbwachs’s theory, as it…
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…Press, 2002). “Shall We Fight for Russia?” Christian Century 58 (September 10, 1941). Sprecher, Paul. “John Haynes Holmes,” Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography, http://www.uua.org/…html (accessed December 7, 2006). “The…
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…the Chechen Republic”, 90 [28] Vatchagaev, “Sufism in Chechnya”, 222-223 [29] Knysh, 517 [30] Moore and Tumelty, 74 [31] Knysh, 516 [32] Reynolds, 47 [33] Ibid., 47-48 [34] Akaev, “Religious…
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…republic of the USSR, which include present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. However, the countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia,…
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…Archive contains tons of material, including biographies of and whole books by writers such as Trotsky, Bukharin, Che Guevara, Georg Lukacs, Rosa Luxemburg, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and many, many more….
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…Economic Power (Lanham, MD: Ivan R. Dee, 2011), 28-29. Peter John Bakewell, Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico:Zacatecas, 1546-1700(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 122. [6] Kolchin, Unfree Labor,…
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…the early civilizations, Russian occupation, the Soviet era, and post-independence. Throughout the story, dynasties, empires, and tribes have all vied for the region’s cool mountains, fertile valleys, and geo-strategic location…
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…23, he resigned as president. The speaker of the parliament, Nino Burjanadze, briefly took over the responsibilities of President until new elections in January, 2004 brought Mikheil Saakashvili, a prominent…
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…are otkloniaiushchiesia, meaning “deviate” (as in from the imagined norm), and ukloniaiushchiesia, meaning “refrain” (as in from contributing). [2] “Defectology,” like “deviant,” is a problematic term – but refers to…
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…Hearne, and Matthew Kott, Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, & Politics, (Central European University Press, Budapest, 2022), 239. [2]Ibid., 99. [3]Ibid., 249-250. [4]Ibid., 250. [5]Ibid., 7. [6]Ibid., 34….
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…increasing the Pension Age. In opposition to the plan, thousands of people protested against the President and the cabinet. Protestors were seen in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, and even…
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…U.S. Adoptions, Upending Families,” New York Times December 27, 2012. [39] David Herszenhorn, “Citing Broken System, Critics Fight Russian Adoption Ban,” New York Times, December 23, 2012. [40] Richard Carlson,…
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…A. S. Khomiakov, 1839, in Offord & Leatherbarrow, 1987: 77), thus negating this historical antagonistic relationship. Furthermore, the powerful autocratic state had no need to interfere in society, they argued,…
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…Hosking, Geoffrey. 2011. Russia and the Russians. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Hutnyk, John. 2006. “Culture.” Theory, Culture, and Society. (3): 351-358. Jackson, Bruce P. 2010 “A Turning Point for…
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One has only to look at the current debate over stem cell research in the USA to understand how science, even today, is shaped by social, economic, and political factors….
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…(October, 2002), 905-921. Also, Bush September 20th, 2001 speech to the Nation. [xxv] Stent and Shevtsova, pg. 123. [xxvi] Ibid. [xxvii] Renee de Nevers, Ponars Policy Memo 275, pg. 4….
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…tightly regulated, defunded, or, in the case of the field of genetics, banned entirely (Pollock, 52). Further, to effectively consolidate power and maintain the stability of the Party’s legitimacy, exchanges…
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…February, 2005. Kargalov, V. V. Vneshne-Politicheskie Faktory Razvitiia Feodal’noi Rusi. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo “Vysshaia shkola”, 1967. Martin, Janet. Medieval Russia, 980—1584. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Morgan, David. The Mongols. New…
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…mass intelligentsia: engineers, specialists, researchers, professors, doctors, and other “proletarian intellectuals.” Their fundamental interests are: the opportunity for self-fulfillment, creative independence, human rights, personal and political freedom, and, to earn,…
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…17 years. One protester, Nikita Orlov, 18, told the New York Times, “I came here because we have no democracy, our Parliament is not real, our politicians are not real…
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